Jazz News

Message in a Bottle: Sting's Vineyard to Sell 'Rock Star Wine'

Source: All About Jazz
March 13, 2009

The rock star Sting – whose best known songs include Message in a Bottle – is to produce 30,000 bottles of Chianti a year from his 300-hectare estate in Tuscany.

The singer, 57, whose real name is Gordon Sumner, made the announcement at a public meeting called at Figline Valdarno, south of Florence, to “defend Tuscan agriculture and bio-diversity". “Since January I have been round the world one and a half times," he told the meeting. “When I get back ...

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The Playboy Sells His Other Mansion

Source: Michael Ricci
March 13, 2009

Hugh Hefner's home next to Playboy mansion for sale for $27,995,000 The two-story, 7,300-square-foot English Manor-style home was built in 1929 and bought by the Hefners in 1998.

OK, no more proverbial pressing your nose up against the gates hoping to catch a glimpse of what goes on at the Playboy mansion. Now, you can live right next door and spy much more effectively from the comforts of your own home.

Hugh Hefner and wife Kimberley have listed their personal ...

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Google's Tim Armstrong to Run AOL Has He Lost His Mind?

Source: All About Jazz
March 13, 2009

Of all the people who have lined up thinking they could fix AOL, Tim Armstrong, Google's head of US ad sales, is certainly the most prominent.

He's been at Google almost from the beginning — originally working out of his house in Connecticut — and he has played a huge role in making Google the ad juggernaut it is today. Thanks to all that work he's probably worth more than $500 million now. All of that will be good for ...

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Grammy Date Changed

Source: All About Jazz
March 13, 2009

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Apple to Preview iPhone 3.0 Next Week

Source: All About Jazz
March 13, 2009

The iPhone is set to get a facelift. Apple will show off a new version of the iPhone operating system, iPhone 3.0, on March 17, along with a new version of the phone's software development kit.

While details are scanty, iPhone 3.0 could include features such as universal search, multi-media messaging and an updated user interface.

Apple will unveil the new SDK and OS at a media event for reporters and bloggers at Apple's Cupertino, California campus, starting at at ...

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Westchester Jazz Orchestra to Perform Favorite Movie Songs in Irvington on April 18

Source: All About Jazz
March 13, 2009

WJO Sextet Will Play at Jacob Burns Film Center on Apr 16

Westchester, NY The Westchester Jazz Orchestra is a local orchestra in about the same way as, say, the New York or Berlin Philharmonic Orchestras are local. On Sat., Apr. 18, this sixteen-piece big band will perform their interpretations of memorable music from the movies at 8 PM at the Irvington Town Hall Theater, 85 Main Street, Irvington, NY.

Selections will include the Grammy-nominated arrangement of Charlie Chaplins immortal ...

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WBGO Kids Jazz Series Announced

Source: All About Jazz
March 13, 2009

Prudential and WBGO Present the Kids Jazz Concert Series this Spring! Free Jazz Series 16 Years in the Making.

On April 4, 2009, WBGO (88.3 FM and wbgo.org) will kick off this year’s Kids Jazz Concert Series - a FREE, weekly, Saturday afternoon concert series bringing jazz culture and performance to New York and New Jersey. These interactive, hour-long programs give young people opportunities to learn about the distinct qualities of jazz, and why it is a reflection ...

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Kevin Frenette Quartet - 3/21 at the Outpost

Source: All About Jazz
March 13, 2009

The Kevin Frenette Quartet at OUTPOST 186 186 1/2 Hampshire Street Cambridge, MA 02139 Saturday March 21, 2009

Kevin Frenette (guitar) James Rohr (piano) Curt Newton (drums) Ryan McGuire (bass)

Kevin Frenette's cd 'Connections' is a dazzling display of sympathetic interactions with truly spontaneous results. Frenette and company combine for a powerful force of open-minded creative energy. John Barron/JazzReview.com

Boston area guitarist Kevin Frenette has performed throughout the ...

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